Asymptotic Distributions of Quasi‐Maximum Likelihood Estimators for Spatial Autoregressive Models

This paper investigates asymptotic properties of the maximum likelihood estimator and the quasi‐maximum likelihood estimator for the spatial autoregressive model. The rates of convergence of those estimators may depend on some general features of the spatial weights matrix of the model. It is important to make the distinction with different spatial scenarios. Under the scenario that each unit will be influenced by only a few neighboring units, the estimators may have ‐rate of convergence and be asymptotically normal. When each unit can be influenced by many neighbors, irregularity of the information matrix may occur and various components of the estimators may have different rates of convergence.     

Family Control and Stock Market Reactions to Innovation Announcements

Although family firms are common around the world, studies on family‐controlled business are limited. Prior studies mainly focused on the influences of family ownership on overall firm performance, and the results were mixed. In this study we attempted to explore the impacts of family ownership on innovation by examining the association of family control and stock market reactions to innovation announcements. We found that firms with greater family control experienced significantly more negative stock market reactions to innovation announcements. The results further indicated that divergence of cash flow and voting rights was strongly and negatively correlated with announcement‐period abnormal returns. In addition, the findings suggested a significantly positive moderating effect of institutional ownership. The conclusions were robust under various measures of family control, and remained valid after controlling other influential factors for stock market reactions to innovation announcements.     

A Study of the Role Played by Manufacturing Strategic Objectives and Capabilities in Understanding the Relationship between Porter's Generic Strategies and Business Performance

An appropriate alignment between business strategy, manufacturing strategic objectives and manufacturing capabilities reportedly influences business performance positively. However, few papers empirically analyse this proposition for the case of Porter's generic strategies of cost leadership and differentiation, and none jointly considers all four elements. This paper integrates strategies, capabilities and performance in a single model and proposes that both manufacturing competitive priorities and capabilities, articulated in terms of cost and flexibility, are essential for explaining the link between generic business strategies and business commercial and financial performance. Within this analytic framework, we test whether companies that emphasize one business strategy rather than another achieve a better alignment and superior performance. The analyses conducted with a sample of 148 Spanish manufacturers provide general support for these propositions and contribute to a deeper understanding of the role played by functional strategies in understanding the outcomes of business strategy.     

Contingencies versus External Pressure: Professionalization in Boards of Firms Affiliated to Family Business Groups in Late‐Industrializing Countries

We examine the antecedents of professionalization in boards of firms affiliated to family business groups, increasingly recognized in the literature as the dominant form of big business organization in many late‐industrializing countries. Dimensions of board professionalization that we include in our study are board size, ratio of salaried executives and outsider presence. We compare predictions on board composition derived from contingency, institutional and power perspectives. Turkish family business groups, considered as an archetypal example of this form of organization, provide the empirical setting for the study, with data on 299 firms affiliated to ten different family business groups. Our results provide greater support for institutional and power perspectives, showing that, relative to internal and external complexity facing affiliate firms, institutional pressures and the presence of joint venture partners better predict board professionalization.     

分析师利益与投资建议的信息含量

 内容提要:本文分析了证券分析师的利益和我国证券分析师投资建议的信息含量。本文发现,证券分析师投资建议大多为“买入”或“中性”建议,而“卖出”建议却很少。通过对投资建议发布日附近股票超额回报率和超常交易量的研究,本文发现“买入”、“卖出”建议分别会引起股价的永久性上涨和下跌,而“中性”建议不会对股价产生显著影响。此外,被建议“买入”和“卖出”的股票的交易量也会明显地增加,特别是在建议发布的当日。这些现象说明,投资者认为分析师的建议包含了有价值的信息,因而相应地调整了对未来收益的预期以及当前最优的持股数量。股票交易的活跃给证券公司带来了佣金收入,作为对他们向市场传递有价值信息的回报。     

Why a time effect often has a limited impact on capture‐recapture estimates in closed populations

The author is concerned with log‐linear estimators of the size N of a population in a capture‐recapture experiment featuring heterogeneity in the individual capture probabilities and a time effect. He also considers models where the first capture influences the probability of subsequent captures. He derives several results from a new inequality associated with a dispersive ordering for discrete random variables. He shows that in a log‐linear model with inter‐individual heterogeneity, the estimator N is an increasing function of the heterogeneity parameter. He also shows that the inclusion of a time effect in the capture probabilities decreases N in models without heterogeneity. He further argues that a model featuring heterogeneity can accommodate a time effect through a small change in the heterogeneity parameter. He demonstrates these results using an inequality for the estimators of the heterogeneity parameters and illustrates them in a Monte Carlo experiment     

The potential of integrated modelling in conservation biology: A case study of the black‐footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes)

Conservation biology aims at assessing the status of a population, based on information which is often incomplete. Integrated population modelling based on state‐space models appears to be a powerful and relevant way of combining into a single likelihood several types of information such as capture‐recapture data and population surveys. In this paper, the authors describe the principles of integrated population modelling and they evaluate its performance for conservation biology based on a case study, that of the black‐footed albatross, a northern Pacific albatross species suspected to be impacted by longline fishing     

试论实物期权理论在项目投资决策中的应用

实物期权是期权理论在财务管理实务中的一个新型应用。传统的投资评价方法暗含的投资不可逆转和推迟的基本假设在具体应用时已表现出其局限性。实物期权理论充分考虑管理者进行投资决策时拥有的灵活选择权 ,并将该种权利予以量化 ,从而证明选择权是具有价值的 ,并由此改变了传统的投资观念和评价体系     

欢腾式发展:泰北乡村农家乐项目的民族志研究

进入21世纪以来,泰国的政党政治发生了重要转变,原来的代理式政党被以项目为基础的纲领式政党取代,国家和社会组织在乡村地区推行了许多发展项目。文章运用集体欢腾的概念,对泰北乡村的农家乐项目进行民族志描述和分析。农家乐项目的实施过程嵌入在地方文化实践当中,表现为项目在原有的有灵空间中展开,通过多主体参与的方式来实现,以及项目实施过程所具有的集体欢腾的特点。文中将这种项目治理模式归纳为欢腾式发展。欢腾式发展的成功之处在于强化了社区的共同体意识,项目实施过程的意义超越了用单一的经济发展指标考量项目实施结果的意义,而国家权力和其他社会力量的绩效也在项目实施过程中得以实现。项目实施过程中所体现出来的社区生活的丰富性、开放性以及重组的可能性应当成为国家与社会治理的重要目标。